LITERARY FICTION AND RATIONALITY
University of Tampere, May 30−31, 2013
PROGRAM:
THURSDAY MAY 30
All Thursday sessions are held at Pinni B 1096
09.00 Welcome by Leila Haaparanta
09.15−10.45 Plenary Talk by Kathleen Stock: Fiction, Belief, Imagining and Cognitive Value
10.45−11.15 Coffee
11.15−11.50 Petr Kotatko: Narration in Decay
11.55−12.30 Arto Laitinen: On Literary Fiction, Science Fiction and Thought Experiments in Practical Philosophy
12.30−13.30 Lunch
13.30−14.05 Lars-Olof Åhlberg: Imaginary and Imagined Worlds in Narrative Fiction
14.10−14.45 Karen Simecek: The Rationality of Poetry
14.50−15.25 Alexander Bareis: The Interpretation of Fictional Narrative and Rationality
15.25−15.55 Coffee
15.55−16.30 María José Alcaraz León: Warranted Emotional Responses to Artworks and the Problem of Moral Education through the Arts
16.35−17.10 Angela Curran: Aristotle on the Nature of Our Affective Responses to Literature
17.15−17.50 Stephen Chamberlain: Emotion and Imagination in the Rationality of Fiction
19.00− Conference Dinner at the Restaurant Henriks
FRIDAY MAY 31
09.15−10.45 Plenary Talk by Elisabeth Schellekens: Title TBA (Pinni B 1096)
10.45−11.15 Coffee
11.15−11.50 Parallel Sessions
Riku Juti: Philosophical Lessons from Dickens (Pinni B1096)
Hanna Meretoja: Literature, Ethics and a Sense of History (Pinni B 1097)
11.55−12.30 Parallel Sessions
Timo Vuorio: A Novel as an Argument. Dostojevsky on Crime (Pinni B 1096)
Olli−Pekka Moisio: Ernst Bloch and Literature (Pinni B 1097)
12.30−13.30 Lunch
13.30−15.00 Plenary Talk by Garry Hagberg: Title TBA (Pinni B 1096)
15.00−15.30 Coffee
15.30−16.05 Parallel Sessions
Jukka Mikkonen: Literature, Irrationality, and Moral Reasoning (Pinni B 1096)
Niklas Forsberg: Teachings of Density and Distance. Remarks on the Philosophical Significance of Novels beyond the Presence of “Philosophy” (Pinni B 1097)
16.10−16.45 Parallel Sessions
Ana Falcato: Form is an Expression of Content. John Coetzee against Substitution of Ethical Thought (Pinni B 1096)
Ingeborg Löfgren: Cavell and Projective Imagination in Philosophy and Literature – Clarification, Mystification, and the Logic of Narration (Pinni B 1097)
16.50−17.25 Parallel Sessions
Bridget Vincent: Reasoning with Literature. Poetic and Prosodic Irrationality (Pinni B 1096)
Nora Hämäläinen: Cora Diamond, Alice Crary and an Extended Conception of Rationality (Pinni B 1097)
Closing Words by Leila Haaparanta (Pinni B 1096)